The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-07-30
SOUTHERN GLEANlNGS.


Mrs, Ca,iarine NJ King, widow of She
late Darlington King, died recently at
Roswell. Ga, aged eighty-three. She was
highly esteemed.
A student at Vanderbilt University, in
tennessee, has Just beat the worlds REQ
ora IN high kicking, having succeeded in
hitting mark at the Unprecedented
height OF nine feet three and one-half
inches.
Miss LemleY, Of Montgomery County,
Tenn, com mitted suicide by hanging a
Few days ago. She was a religious en-
thusiast, and her mind had become un-
balanced.
The ex-Union negro soldiers at New Or.
leans are clamoring for admission TO the
Grand Army of the Republic Having
oeen refused by the local department,
they will appeal to the Grand Encamp-
ment at st. Louis.
There is at pres ent at Mount Vernon,
Barracks, Ala, an old army mule that has
record OF service in the army covering
period OF sixty years. He has been en-
tered on the Government rolls as pen.
sloner, getting his feed and care during
lie and exemption from sale.
Near Troy, Tenn, few evenings since,
James b Kitchel was run over and in
stantly killed by train on the Chesa-
peake d Ohio railroad. Kitchel was
blacksmith, originally from Metropolis,
LII. de left wife and several children.
A bill recently introduced into the
Georgia Legislature prohibits the use of
the little chromos that go with packages
of cigarettes.
IF hi
Tristan cattle were poisoned few nights
ago by some unknown person, who threw
paris green, mixed with salt, in ]. S. Ed
munds' pasture, near Manchester, La.
Eight of the animals have died.
The boiler Of L. j. Chamber lain's new
saw-mill at Natchez, Miss, exploded a
few days since, wrecking the mill, kill
ing Dorsey Scott (coored), frem an, and
inJuring M Chamberlain, the engineer
and proprietor, and two or three others.
The startling discovery was made al
Lexington, KY, few nights ago that
the incendaries who set on fire the large
coal and feed esta blishment of Des cognets
q Co. twice within a week are five small
boys ranging in age from seven to nine
years. some of them belonging to good
| families
Pdrtes digging a we'll in Nashville,
Tenn, few days since, found the tusk of
mastodon twenty-eight inches in cir.
conference and nearly seven feet long.
Prof. Stafford, State Geoogist and Pro
lessor of Mineralogy and Geology at Van.
derbilt University, examined it, and pro-
nounced it undoubtedly the remains of a
mastodon.
old nd nf,-i,
| farmer of Carlisle County, KY, was shot
and killed by his tenant, Jack Russell, q
few days ago. The weapon used was &
shotgun, the load taking effect in Bur
rows head, killing him instantly. A feuC
had existed between the two men FOL
some time.
Fire destroyed the Barnhardt Hotel,
two-story wooden structure, at Bessemer
Ala, few nights ago, together will
twenty-one adjoining houses of the same
character. Thirteen persons were hurt
bad enough to need the services Of thC
physicians, and the injuries of an en-
graver named Frederick Peterson wer,
thought to be fatal
United States Marshal Gross and al
armed force left Louisville, XIV, few
days since for Campbellsburg, the county
seat of Taylor County, KY, to make
levy in enforcement of a ju igment agains
the people of the county for a railroad
The people are furious, and lively time
were eX pected.
For some time past freight cars of tn
Knoxville branch Of the Louisville 4
Nashville road have been systematically
robbed aud large amounts Of goods taken
h,,n1 30
years in tho roads service, was arrested a
Louisville, few days since, land confessed
the robbery. He duplicates jam 8 Fuel
colored boarding-house keeper o
Lebanon, Ky. Most Of the stolen good
were Cincinnati shipments, some of whic
have been recovered.
Daisy Cherry an eleven-year- old Co
ored girl, Of Barnwell, N. C., has bee
convicted Of the murder of q white in
FAINT, and sentenced to be hanged at CT
lum bia in September. The young Grim
inal was hired out by her parents {
nurse white baby. The work was dis
tasteful to her, and she administered
dose of concentrated I've to the child
which caused its death in few hours.
7. De Witt Saddler shot and killed J. {
Harrison at Pineapple, Ala, few day
ago, and the coroner's Jury gave verde
of accidental homicide. They had bee
out hunting and began joking by Saddle
asking for chew of tobacco. Harriso
refused and Saddler pointed his gun a
him playfully, when it went OF by acc
dent, killing Harrison on the spot Bot
were respectable white citizens.
At Winchester, Va, recently, the gran
} jury indicted prominent Isrselite me
chant, N. Kohn, and his niece, Emm
Frankel The parties were married b
Rabbi Phi lipson, Of Har Sinai Table
nacle, in Baltimore, January 81, 1887, an
returned to Winchester to reside. II
Virginia law forbids the marriage in tn
State of parties thus connected, or, ha'
ing been married, from returning there
reside as man and wife. The penalty
t heavy fine and Imprisonment. EmineI
a counsel has been engaged by N>hn.
a The Georgia House of Representative
. passed the Pelton Wine-Room bill by
A vote of 90 to 60 The necessity for the bi
arose from the fact that the law undo
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